Research Guides: POLI_SCI 101-6: The Rule of Law Around the World: (Alter): Legal Systems

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Includes encyclopedia entries, book chapters, and other background sources about the rule of law in the countries below.

China

“China, People's Republic of - Legal System”, in: Foreign Law Guide, Edited by: Marci Hoffman. Consulted online on 4 October, 2024
Dong, Xiaobo, and Yafang Zhang. On Contemporary Chinese Legal System. 1st ed. Singapore: Springer, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2505-6.
Zhu, Jingwen, Tao Meng, Hui Feng, Hao Peng, Xinyan Liu, and Xiaolong Peng, eds. China’s Legal System : An Interpretation of Its Structure, Principles, and Institutions. Singapore: Springer, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8994-0.
Tian, He, Yanbin L�u, and Xiaomei Wang, eds. Report on the Rule of Law Index in China. 2. Singapore: Springer, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9597-2.
Bath, Vivienne. “Legal and Judicial System.” The SAGE Handbook of Contemporary China, 2018.
Cassel, Pär. “East Asian Legal Traditions.” In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), edited by James D. Wright, 778–83. Oxford: Elsevier, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.86139-5.
"Law Since 1949." In Encyclopedia of Modern China, edited by David Pong, 442-446. Vol. 2. Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2009. Gale eBooks (accessed August 20, 2021). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX1837900316/GVRL?u=northwestern&sid=bookmark-GVRL
MacCormack, Geoffrey. "Chinese law." In The New Oxford Companion to Law. : Oxford University Press, 2008. https://www-oxfordreference-com.turing.library.northwestern.edu/view/10.1093/acref/9780199290543.001.0001/acref-9780199290543-e-274.
Zhang, Lening. "China (People's Republic of China)." In Asia and Pacific, edited by Graeme R. Newman, 64-71. Vol. 3 of Crime and Punishment around the World. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2010. Gale eBooks (accessed September 16, 2021). https://link.gale.c
Pearce, Scott, Jérôme Bourgon, and Michael Palmer. "Chinese Law, History of." In The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History. : Oxford University Press, 2009. https://www-oxfordreference-com.turing.library.northwestern.edu/view/10.1093/acref/97
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"Chinese Law." In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, edited by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, 1739-1743. Vol. 3. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier, 2001. Gale eBooks (accessed August 20, 2021). https://link.gale.com/ap

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